Our 9-1/2 week old is extremely stubborn as well and has the same behavior you're describing. He is bond and determined to finish what he started and doesn't like "no". We're in the midst of having our upper floor deck re-built so for potty we have to carry him down the stairs to the front yard. Well you should see the show he puts on when you carry him! He groans, grumbles, wiggles, bites...he wants to walk those stairs himself. If you aren't quick enough he runs up them when you turn your back. He's
very head strong.
All I can suggest is to really just try and divert your pups attention with her favorite toys, a good bone etc. It seems to work for us. Sometimes they just want your undivided attention and 'any attention is good attention' (just like a child). We get right down on the ground several times a day and play with him...tug a war, belly rubs, short obedience lessons (he already sits, lays down and shakes a paw)....those types of things.
When he's just not getting "no" and he's bouncing off the walls and gets out of control and we start getting beyond frustrated, we will take him in the yard to run around, play in his little pool etc or take him on a short walk. He really burns of the energy and there's not a whole lot he can get into in the yard. At night we take him for a short walk up and down our street and that does him in for the evening. zzzzzzzzz!
Now if I can only figure out how to get him to sleep past 4am! He sleeps through the whole night now, but 4am he's the rooster. haha!
